You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.